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Monday, May 4, 2015

The Zen of Rolling Rocks Uphill

From Jon Parshall Blog :

I'm coming up on my 13-year anniversary with CodeWeavers in the next couple months. And the question of the hour is: why did I decide to come to CodeWeavers, rather than staying in my previous role as an IT consultant? And was that a good call, particularly given that my livelihood is connected to an insanely difficult open-source technology like Wine?

Our fabulous parking lot. Note the shocking lack of BMWs and Porsches...
Flash back to the summer of 2002. I was working as an independent
business analyst, doing a gig at a large local real-estate firm. I was
making very good money. I was also
absolutely bored to
tears. So when Jeremy White came calling, saying he needed a right-hand
man to help him run CodeWeavers, and that he couldn't really pay me
hardly anything to start, and would I like an "opportunity" like that, I
honestly didn't hesitate much before saying "Why, yes! I would love an
opportunity to work for an obscure, struggling software company while
earning a lot less money, and a lot more aggravation!"

Fast-forward
to 2015, and here I am. Still. And CodeWeavers is still doing pretty
much the same thing: selling CrossOver. We're making more money, but not
tons more. And from a technical perspective, we're still
rolling a gargantuan rock uphill. Yeah, Wine has come a long way in
thirteen years. It runs a lot more stuff now. But it's still a colossal
pain in the butt to improve it. And not only that, but as more people
have adopted tablets and smartphones, the importance of the Windows
software marketplace has slowly diminished (sort of like my hairline),
meaning that the hard work we do is arguably less important now than it
was when I came aboard. Isn't that just awesome?